into them, and make a change in their religion. The third vial will be poured out upon the rivers and fountains of waters, which may point to those places adjacent to Rome, as Italy and Savoy ; =and as the third trumpet brought the Huns into those parts, so this vial will bring in large armies. hither, which will cause much bloodshed, and a great revolution in church and state. The fourth vial will be poured out upon the sun, which must denote some person or persons of great dignity and influence; and, as the fourth trumpet brought destruction upon the emperor of Rome, the sun of the empire, and upon governors under him, signified by the moon and stars; this vial will bring on the ruin of the pope of Rome, the sun of the antichristian empire, with all his cardinals, bishops, priests, &c.

Now these several vials, as they will be so many plagues on the western Antichrist, and make so many breaches and ruins upon his states and dominions, so they will be so many gradual steps to the advancement of the glory and kingdom of Christ, and issue in the reformation of these places from popery. The sixth vial will be poured out on the river Euphrates, which designs the Turkish empire, in the midst of which that river is: and as the sixth trumpet let loose the four angels, or heads of the Ottoman family into Europe, so this vial affects the same empire, and brings de=struction on it, signified by the drying up the waters

of that river, as Babylon's destruction is expressed by the drying up of her sea, Jer. li. 36, which will make way for the kings, or kingdoms of the east, the kingdoms of Persia, and Tartary, and others, to receive and embrace the christian religion: this is the second, or Turkish woe, which shall pass away, when the kingdoms of this world will become Christ's, and his dominion will be from sea to sea, from the Mediterranean sea to the Persian sea, and from the river Euphrates to the ends of the earth. The seventh vial will be poured out upon the air, the whole kingdom of Satan, in all the branches of it, who is the prince of the power of the air; and this vial will clear the whole world of all the remains of Christ's enemies, pagan, papal, and mahometan, which the other vials left, or did not reach; and now will Christ's kingdom be in its full glory. Now the heathens, papists, pagans, and mahometans, will perish out of his land, and these sorts of sinners will be consumed out of the earth, and such wicked ones will be no more.

But I must not forget the conversion of that considerable body of people the Jews, who have been preserved a distinct people for several hundreds of years, for this purpose; the conversion of these people will be sudden, and of them altogether; a nation shall be born at once. It looks as if their conversion would be like that of the apostle Paul, and he seems to hint that it

will when he says, that he, in obtaining mercy, waз a pattern to them which should hereafter believe.

There will be great peace and prosperity of all kinds, inward and outward, spiritual and temporal; in those days of the Messiah's spiritual reign, shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth; violence shall no more be heard in their land, nor wasting and destruction within their borders.

This destruction of Antichrist England has been most strenuously endeavouring to effect for a long time, and in the midst of all her financial distresses, borne down as she has almost been by taxation-large and unexampled has been the fund, swelled even by the widow's mite, which she has brought forward to circulate the gospel in all languages to the farthest corners of the earth; and by this means she has in a great measure realized this first clause of the extract from Dr Gill's sermon, and prepared the way for the pouring out the second and third vials: the first appearing to relate to the French revolution; the second, to those of Spain and Portugal, just effected; and the third, to Naples, and other Italian states, which the march of the Austrian troops may tend to expedite, and which, with other appearances on the political horizon, better surmised than spoken of, may hasten the fourth,

in the interpretatlon of which I differ from Dr, Gill, nor can I see any just reason for his omission of the fifth, which seems directly to point at the final overthrow and destruction of the papal authority..

The learned Alstedius, his Speculum Mundi, and Chronology of the Prophetic Numbers.— Extracted from a work entitled, "Catastrophe Mundi" printed 1683.

1. GOD alone hath reserved to himself the exact knowledge of future things, as the incommunicable prerogative of his Divine Majesty: therefore it is impossible any man, though never so clear-sighted, should compile an accurate chronology for time to come, or define the punctual moments of futurity; yet is not therefore the explanation of prophetic numbers to be omitted, for since God hath expressed certain numbers in the histories and prophecies of his word, it would be too great both sloth and ingratitude not to weigh, and with reverence and the fear of the Lord inquire into them.

2. In observing the great conjunctions or revolutions of the planets, as superstition and overscrupulous diligence is not to be approved, so

neither is negligence or contempt thereof to be allowed.

3. The twelfth chapter of Daniel ought to be our pole-star in explaining prophetic numbers, for there we are led, as by the hand, from the building of the second temple to its destruction; and from the destruction thereof, which was Anno Christi 69, by a term of days he numbers first 1290, and then 1335; that is, in all (with the 69 years which were elapsed from Christ's birth, to the overthrow of the temple) 2694 years; from which, if we deduct the 1000 years, Rev. xx. 2, we shall be brought to the year of our Lord 1694, whence we may gather that the seven vials are to be poured forth at or before that time, or their significations to continue no longer.

4. The most eminent mutations from the year 1060 to 1700 may be gathered from the planetary conjunctions, compared with the apocalyptical numbers, which point out the years 1622, 1625, 1636, 1642, 1683, and 1694.

5. The comparing of histories one with another, the observation of the stars, and a diligent inspection into the manners of men, do much conduce towards our predicting of human things.

6. Those philosophers that are more skilful in astronomy reckon four monarchies, not according to the prevalency of kingdoms, but according to the four coasts of the world. The first was of